About Me

My name’s Quinn, and I am a twenty-something children’s librarian at a public library in Central New York. I absolutely love my job. The best part of my job is getting to work with kids, but being surrounded by books all day doesn’t hurt either. I help children learn to love to read, and, as they get older, help them find books they will enjoy.

I have my B.A. degree from a small Virginia state school. For any Maggie Stiefvater fan’s, I went to the same college as her! I have my MLIS from a SUNY school.

I have two adorable dogs named Ginger (a mix between a Poodle and a Havanese, pictured below) and Daphne (a Bichon Frise, pictured left). They are my babies, and I probably drive everyone I know nuts because I talk about how cute they are nonstop. I’ll try not to do that on my blog.

I love reading children’s, middle grade, and teen books! Unfortunately most of my friends don’t enjoy them as much as I do. I am hoping this blog will help me express my love for teen books, and to meet others who enjoy them as much as I do.

You can email me at: quinnsbooknook (at) gmail (dot) com

My Favorite Things:

Favorite Movie:Singing in the Rain (This is the best movie musical of all time!)Runners up:Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version), You’ve Got Mail, The Princess Bride, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Favorite Book:Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRunners Up: The Harry Potter Series, The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman, and so many more! Chosing my favorite books besides P&P is impossible.

Actually, Ginger is named after the spice (or herb or whatever it is – I’m not really knowledgable about food stuff). When I got Ginger I was still living with my parents (I was a college student and home for the summer). My family has always named our pets after food (you can see what we value, huh?) and Ginger had reddish fur. So I named her Ginger.

I’ve since given up on naming my pets after food (although I did have two fish named Chicken and French Fries) and am naming my pets after book or movie/tv people. So my other dog is named Daphne, after Daphne Du Maurier, author of Rebecca. I also had a fish named Sir Percival Blakeney (Sir Percy for short) after The Scarlet Pimpernel.

My parents still name their pets after food, though. They have two dogs named Biscuit and Bean.

I LOVE The Notorious Benedict Arnold byu Steve Sheinkin. That’s fantastic and the cover is amazing (it would definitely grab kids’ eyes). Not a biography, but a middle-grade/YA nonfiction title that I love is Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Seve Sheinkin.

Hallo again, Quinn! 🙂
You should really check out the new library love badges that are sprouting up all over my blog!! They’re in the sidebar and under my Bookish Life as well as threaded through my Bout posts!! You should definitely grab some for your blog!! 🙂 🙂 Its wonderful to see someone who works as a Children’s Librarian who is especially keen on books herself! You rock! 🙂 You’ll soon discover that I speak about ‘libraries!’ throughout my blog!! Including showcasing the ‘special’ ones in my blogroll {or that otherwise hefty sidebar! lol}

Pride and Prejudice is definitely my all-time favorite classic book, but the more contemporary books I read, the harder it is to hold onto the classics as my overall favorites. I have to break it down my genre. 🙂